Amyes Road

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Amyes Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Hornby.

From the air, then

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →

The addresses on it

• 1 Amyes Road, 21 reports
• 27 Amyes Road, 17 reports
• 48 Amyes Road, 15 reports
• 88 Amyes Road, 13 reports
• 46 Amyes Road, 11 reports
• 2 Amyes Road, 10 reports
• 43 Amyes Road, 8 reports
• 21A Amyes Road, 7 reports
• 42 Amyes Road, 6 reports
• 28 Amyes Road, 6 reports
• 59 Amyes Road, 5 reports
• 79 Amyes Road, 4 reports
• 25 Amyes Road, 4 reports
• 96A Amyes Road, 3 reports
• 93A Amyes Road, 3 reports
• 82 Amyes Road, 3 reports
• 72 Amyes Road, 3 reports
• 7 Amyes Road, 3 reports
• 6 Amyes Road, 3 reports
• 57A Amyes Road, 3 reports
• 5/1 Amyes Road, 3 reports
• 49 Amyes Road, 3 reports
• 36 Amyes Road, 3 reports
• 23 Amyes Road, 3 reports
• 22 Amyes Road, 3 reports
• 17 Amyes Road, 3 reports
• 114 Amyes Road, 3 reports
• 100 Amyes Road, 3 reports
• 98 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 84 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 78 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 69 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 68 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 66 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 63 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 53B Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 53 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 5 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 45 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 44 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 39 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 38 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 37 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 24 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 21 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 18 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 12 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 108 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 106 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 10 Amyes Road, 2 reports
• 95 Amyes Road, 1 report
• 94 Amyes Road, 1 report
• 93 Amyes Road, 1 report
• 92 Amyes Road, 1 report
• 87 Amyes Road, 1 report
• 85 Amyes Road, 1 report
• 83 Amyes Road, 1 report
• 81 Amyes Road, 1 report
• 8 Amyes Road, 1 report
• 77 Amyes Road, 1 report

What got reported

• Roads & footpaths, 75 reports
• Graffiti & vandalism, 74 reports
• Water & drains, 41 reports
• Rubbish & dumping, 41 reports
• Trees & parks, 9 reports
• Vehicles & parking, 6 reports
• Everything else, 5 reports
• Noise, 4 reports

Year by year

• 2016, 1 report
• 2017, 5 reports
• 2018, 9 reports
• 2019, 4 reports
• 2020, 6 reports
• 2021, 27 reports
• 2022, 59 reports
• 2023, 33 reports
• 2024, 35 reports
• 2025, 45 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

• CYCLING. (Ashburton Guardian, 30 October 1909) · Papers Past, 30 Oct 1909
  …chertsey refreshment station dunsandel to hornby thence to plumpton park along shand road amyes road and wash bourne road entering at the gate and proceeding to the right around the track to the finis…
• POWER SUPPLY (Ellesmere Guardian, 13 August 1935) · Papers Past, 13 Aug 1935
  …rnby on the following roads the lowtension has been tightened up vickery road leslie road amyes road ranfurly street and the low tension and services for all yaldhurst have been finished low tension h…
• Ian McAuley Olliver etc. · New Zealand Gazette, 23 Mar 2000
  …. Borland, Shane William Francis, unemployed, formerly of 76 Rowley Avenue, Hoon Hay, 66A Amyes Road, Hornby, and 11 Dix Street, Hornby, Christchurch. Tate, Larry Dean, container supervisor, of Flat 4…
• In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 2 Aug 2001
  …e, Belmont, Lower Hutt, at 12.35 p.m.Shepherd, Josephine Anne, sales representative, of78 Amyes Road, Hornby, Christchurch.Stephens, Alan Lloyd, carpet layer, of 24 Ewen Alison Avenue, Devonport, Auck…
• In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 13 Jan 2005
  …treet, South Brighton, Christchurch, at 9.05 a.m.Maxwell, Zane Lawrence, machinist, of 74 Amyes Road, Hornby, Christchurch, at 12.15 p.m.Shaw-Ahipene, Meshal Merenia, home executive, of40 Fairview Roa…
• In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 11 Jan 2007
  …3 Mudgway Place, Palmerston North, at 10.10am.Sullivan, Christopher Michael, handyman, 36 Amyes Road, Hornby, Christchurch, at 3.56pm.Williams, David Raymond, window installer, 40 Longburn Road, Hende…

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

• Te Manu Tukutuku South Hornby School, Contributing · decile 4 · EQI 464 · roll 310

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Amyes Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

• Super LiquorBottle stores · 1 Amyes Road Hornby

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Amyes Road in 37 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Amyes Road & Springs Road, 26 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.

• LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Star, 13 June 1878) · Star, 13 Jun 1878
• MAGISTERIAL. (Star, 04 January 1898) · Star, 4 Jan 1898

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

• Hi everyone, Bit of a long shot, but I seem to have dropped my blue wallet somewhere around the Amyes Road / Springs Road area in Hornby today. Unfortunately, whoever found it has already used my… · r/chch · M-Leee, 29 Sept 2026

As it was reported

more photographs
on the Hornby wall →

The latest on it

• Overgrown Vegetation, 71B Amyes Road, 4 Oct 2026
• Water General, 54 Amyes Rd, 16 Sept 2026
• Pavement - General, 93 Amyes Road, 21 Aug 2026
• General Request, 94 Amyes Rd, 18 Aug 2026
• Pothole, 1 Amyes Road, 25 Jul 2026
• Pavement - Damaged, 50 Amyes Road, 23 Jul 2026
• Flooding, 5/1 Amyes Road, 6 Jul 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 114 Amyes Road, 5 Jul 2026
• Water Leak, 43 Amyes Road, 29 Jun 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 2 Amyes Road, 28 Jun 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 83 Amyes Rd, 24 Jun 2026
• Damaged Road, 28 Amyes Rd, 20 Jun 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 53 Amyes Road, 19 Jun 2026
• Water Leak, 43 Amyes Rd, 18 Jun 2026
• Street Gutters / Storm Water, 1 Amyes Road, 14 Jun 2026